Oh, and learn to take time to spellcheck. Your spirit of sectional invective begins to show, when you let your words outrace your brain like that.
Shame on me for introducing broad-brush sectional slurs into this thread. And after all the kind words said here about the North.
Actually, there is no intended sectional invective at all. I never slur the South, just the Confederate States of America. It was bad for Southern people, both black and white. I think some fans of the slave empire must despise Yankeeland so much that they they delude themselves to the real rotten nature of the CSA.
The hard fact is that in the 1860s our section of the country was in the wrong.
Nothing "hard" about it.
Nothing factual, either.
And what do you mean, "our section"? You spit on the South 24/7/365, and then talk about "our"?
It's one thing to correct a family member or disagree in private, and another to revile them in public, and make common cause with stranger-enemies like Non-Sequitur, who couldn't even stand the air down here and regarded his time spent in the South as -- his words -- wasted.